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The Great Famine

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

The Great Famine

By John Gibney

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About the book

The Irish potato famine of the 1840s - the 'Great Famine' or 'An gorta mór' - is one of the defining events in modern Irish history. Over a five-year period a population of 8.2 million was reduced to 6.5 million through starvation, disease and emigration. The famine permanently changed one of the constituent parts of the United Kingdom as it then stood and its legacies of depopulation, socio-economic and cultural change, political resentment, and the expansion through mass emigration of an Irish...Show more

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9781526736635

Publisher

Pen & Sword Books

Published year

2018

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1

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The Great Famine

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Paperback

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